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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

For the next three days I'll be in New York City at the Macworld Expo. This gives everyone another chance to catch up to my post total, I guess.

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Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

Macworld Expo? Oh dear goodness....... *shakes head*

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Where? Isn't that just a dupe to collect all those free-wandering insane people?

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Good Lord... Somebody has to stop it before those INSIDIOUS macintosh people take over the world!

Or is that those little lab mice we're supposed to be worried about?. .. I forget....

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

A Macintosh convention?! *goes to get the exact location and train his quantum torpedoes on it*

Well, maybe not, but it would be one of the greatest services imaginable to mankind... :-)

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Posted by Antagonist (Member # 76) on :

SHHH!
Don't tell frank about the people in white coats!

We want him to go back to the asylum.

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

Indeed.

Of course, I have sources that this is a very, very important MacWorld convention. You see, their spaceship will come down and take them on to the next phase before the coming armageddon.

*slips a couple of packets of Kool-Aid into Frank's bag*

He'll be needing this...

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

You're all just jealous because there's no PC equivalent. :P

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

A Macintosh convention? I couldn't imagine more than a handful of people being shameless enough to actually turn up and admit to owning a Mac.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

It will be Frank and Steve Jobs having lunch, with Bill Gates on a little TV screen.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Yeah, well, we wouldn't need an asylum if Monty Clone Number Whatever hadn't let him out of Connecticut last month!

"What do you think?"
"It's vile!"
"I know... It's so bubbly and cloy and happy..."
"Just like the MacWorld Convention..."
"But you know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it."
"It's insidious!"
"Just like the MacWorld Convention."

- Quark and Garak on rootbeer and this other vile offender!

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

[This message has been edited by Elim Garak (edited July 21, 1999).]

Posted by Antagonist (Member # 76) on :

Gee, Frank...you're right. There is no PC equivelant.

Al the PC's are superior.

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Egads! .... of COURSE there isn't a Mac equivalent! I thank God every DAY that there isn't a Mac equivalent!

And yes... hush up, 'cause I sent the little white coated people after him, and with any luck he'll go back to the asylum where he belongs and STAY there this time.

Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Macintoshes suck. They aren't even up to the level of the Commodore 64. :P

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Just wait until he finds out that the "Frame of Mind" scenario wasn't designed for The Next Generation... *maniacal look*

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Well, you see that this is all a bad joke!

Frank is going to the Big Apple... in the Big Apple!

A sick joke from a twisted convention-planner!

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Of course there isn't a PC equivalent. PC-users aren't computer perverts who need reassurance that there are others like them in the world... *L*

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Ben: "Why? You crash the ship into something?"
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Hey, I am a pervert. But on the other hand, I don't hope there are any other people like me in the world.

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I got to see Apple's new iBook. What did you do this week? :P

Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Er.. I wanked a lot, does that count?

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

iBook seems to have a lot under the hood for $1599.00.
I don't know anything about apple's software, having seen only one that was running. Is it well stocked.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

You mean bundled software? Here is a list of what the iBook comes with.

Posted by Dani (Member # 57) on :

Anyone that can just blurt out the term "Macs suck!" is obviously showing their lack of research into the topic...*L* I think all the PC fanatics are just afraid of the stifling evidence and documentation on the Apple website that their G3 processor is far superior to the pentium in many aspects. Besides, a Mac can run it's Mac OS, Linux and Windows. *L*

I've also heard tell that Windows actually runs better on a mac than it does on a comparable PC. Isn't that a little embarassing? Imagine for a second, NO MORE "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH"! If the ISP I work for sets up a leasing program for us to buy new machines, I'm buying a G3. 'Nuff said.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

*applauds!*

I have SoftWindows (an old version, too), and it's never crashed, although I haven't used it much. VirtualPC is probably better anyway. Although only the latest G3s will run emulators at a suitable speed, unless you get an OrangePC card.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Ooh, let's all take a trip down to the Mac webpage for evidence regarding Macs. No conflict of interest there.

When we're through there, what say we hop over to the Heaven's Gate page and learn the TRUTH about advancing to the level beyond human.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Now, now, Sol. There are many good things about Macs.

"Such as?" you say? Well... *mind draws a blank*

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Oh, come on, Elim. Surely you could mention the colors and AppleScript.

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Oh, yes, the colours--! Wait, I hate the colours.

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

One good thing about Macs: Some of them have nice cases, with easy access to the insides.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Like mine.

Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :

Okay, so Mac's don't suck so bad. Of course I haven't dealt with a Mac in about 5 years so I wouldn't know. However the ibook looks kinda cool for a laptop.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

For three of my years in high school, we did the yearbook on Macs. I know first-hand that they do, in fact, suck. :-�

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Posted by Dan (Member # 129) on :

I'm probably going to get my lower half flamed off for this as usual when I post, but I have my flame retardant pants on (and I'll shoot anybody who makes retard noises

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The reason I use Mircosoft is that while them an Apple try to control the computer business, Micorsoft doesn't make their own computers, yet. That and everything's availiable for PC's, too.

*waiting for K7's to kick the crap out of my friend's PIII*

And here's an article on PC vs. Mac
http://www.gamespot.com/features/macvspc/index.html

If a PIII, a K7 will scare the piss out of me.

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[This message has been edited by Dan (edited July 25, 1999).]

Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I don't get it. What are those numbers they're using on the "data" page?